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The stigma of the drug is harder for them to overcome, advocates say.
For older adults exploring the new world of medical marijuana, age 65 seems to be a tipping point. Those under that age use the drug for medical purposes at largely the rates of other adults. Usage among people over 65 appears to drop significantly, though, perhaps because of the culture in which they came of age.
That’s the conclusion based on emerging data from this rapidly growing, but little-studied area of medicine. Today, half of the states now allow medical marijuana in some form and there are an estimated 1 million people using it.
In states that keep track of such demographics, medical marijuana usage drops around age 65 and decreases even more at age 70 and above. Those who work in the medical marijuana field say they aren’t surprised. But they think those numbers will change...
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